COMPANY
ANDREA CULLEN
An analyst, strategic advisor and the Founding Managing Director of Bright Link Ventures Ltd, Andrea Cullen’s unique approach to startups, business management and investing benefits from her experience both owning and managing businesses as well as from a 15 year career in leveraged finance.
Andrea was the Director of Research for Ares Management’s Tradable Credit Group, where she worked for 12 years. While at Ares, Andrea managed a $1.7 billion portfolio of leveraged loans, bonds and CDS positions (long and short) across the consumer products, food, supermarket and retail sectors. She cultivated broader based industry knowledge as architect and Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Markets Investment committee. Prior to that, Andrea was an associate at DLJ/CSFB where she worked in the high yield group covering the consumer products sector.
Andrea earned her MBA from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. She currently serves on the advisory boards of Ageist, Courtsdesk, ForwardLane, Parcelly and PepperHQ and is a mentor for Barclays FinTech Accelerator, powered by Techstars – London.
PATRICK CLARKE
Patrick Clarke is a writer, actor and award-winning filmmaker with over 20 years experience in the film industry. His first feature film, Beyond the Pale, which he co-wrote and produced, went on to both commercial success and critical acclaim – winning awards at the Houston and Arizona film festivals. Clarke formed i4i Productions which completed many projects including One, written and performed by Greg Pearl, John Illsley and Paul Brady; the feature-length documentary The Extra Mile and the period feature thriller Trapped a.k.a Anton which was nominated for three Irish Film & Television Awards.
Patrick is the director of BLV’s media content division, which offers a range of services for creating specialist proprietary content. BLV’s focus is in generating thought-provoking media on subject matters that are integral to the corner stones of BLV and those of our clients.
BLV’s media content division manages all stages of the production process including scouting, scheduling, budgeting, casting, crewing and post-production.